I ask you: is this the sort of future you want to live in? "The URAA pushed the costs for sheet music for works by such composers as Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev from less than $100 to at least $1,000 -- and this only to rent the music. After the performance, Kapp must return the copy back to the asserted restored copyright holder, thus requiring Kapp's orchestra to pay several thousand dollars more should it wish to perform the work again." What is really outrageous is that these works were formerly in the public domain. Now the purpose of copyright is to encourage creativity by paying the artists - but I just don't think we're going to be seeing new works from Stravinsky any time soon. Or, at this rate, any old ones either.
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